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Our People

We take pride in having a business that clients and colleagues respect because we do the right thing. Having highly skilled and motivated staff that share our values and ethos is fundamental to gaining this respect and we recognise that it is our staff who are able to deliver the quality design and committed service that we believe our clients should expect.

Louise Knights

Associate

Louise joined LSI in 2007, having exhibited in the 2007 RA Summer Exhibition. Louise received 1st prize for outstanding achievement in Art and Design from Seoul National University in Korea, and other student awards. She qualified in 2009, and was made an associate in 2014.

In her time at LSI Louise has primarily worked in the healthcare sector, developing specialist knowledge in the design and delivery of Hospice projects. Most recently, Louise led the Arthur Rank Hospice project in Cambridge, shortlisted for IHEEM Healthcare Estates New Build Project of the Year, winner of awards from Building Better Healthcare, Construction Computing and winner of RICS East of England’s Project of the Year.

Louise has extensive experience in user group consultation with multiple stakeholders, and her innovative thinking frequently results in innovative solutions, benefitting patient choice and experience, and assisting the healing process.

Beyond her project roles, Louise is responsible for LSI’s internal design forums, and is also responsible for work experience students at LSI, regularly representing the practice at careers fairs.

Related Projects

Winner of the 2017 RICS East Awards 'Community Benefit' Award and 'Project of the Year', and a 2017 Building Better Healthcare Award for 'Best Use of BIM', the £10.5 million state-of-the-art Arthur Rank Hospice is a new 24-bed facility for the Cambridge based end of life care charity.

A new build Palliative Care Centre for patients with life-limiting conditions and their families, won in a limited RIBA design competition. This multi-award winning scheme has been designed to embrace the science and art of healing, with an environment that is contemporary but not clinical. The building is highly sustainable and has drawn together many aspects of LSI’s community programme.

The first of the Major Trauma Centre’s to go live in the UK, this project comprised the refurbishment of the existing Emergency Department including expansion into an existing outpatient clinic to create the new Major Trauma Centre for the Eastern Region.

A new state of the art Hybrid Endovascular Aneurism Repair, or EVAR theatres and standard operating theatre, with associated clinical support spaces, at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge. The new EVAR theatres will improve the lives of people suffering with vascular disease.